Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Anti-Entropy

Out of the primordial cosmic dust of the Big Bang
something strange happened: entropy reversed itself.

From that moment in space-time the laws of
thermodynamics say that the universe should now be a homogeneous mass of
particles that is ever expanding. But it isn’t. Cosmic dust coalesced into
stars that fused atoms together and exploded them out into the universe. Those
atoms coalesced into smaller stars and planets.

But how?

We’ve learned that there isn’t enough mass in the
universe to explain how things are moving. It needs dark matter – which makes
up over 90 percent of the universe – to make the math add up. We know that the
universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate which requires dark energy to
push things apart. But what we haven’t understood, until now, is how all the
normal matter and energy got clumped up into stars and planets. It defies the
laws of the universe as we know them.

We don’t even know what to call it yet, but we know it
must exist. A force in the universe that is the opposite of entropy and brings
order instead of chaos, but only in some places at some times. If you calculate
the trajectory of all the stars in all the galaxies in all the universe and run
it in reverse you’ll notice a pattern emerge. There are places that exist
outside of space-time that reverse entropy when space-time moves through them.